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Pandora’s Box: Ideals or Interest
By Pascal Boniface
(Le Monde Diplomatique, January 1999)
Last year’s nuclear tests in India and Pakistan have focused world attention on the problem of nuclear proliferation. But the proliferation of states is potentially an even more serious threat to international stability.
All over the world, countries are fragmenting. It’s a trend that goes beyond North-South and East-West divides (Ignacio Ramonet, Géopolitique du chaos, 1997). The Soviet Union and former Yugoslavia are particularly dramatic examples, but the trend is general – look at Quebec, Sri Lanka, China, the United Kingdom. The same thing is happening in Africa too, where colonial borders, retained for reasons of practicality, started to be redrawn with the recognition of Eritrea in 1993. Change could be on the way as a result of ethnic and political tensions in Somalia, Senegal, Angola, Congo, Liberia, Djibouti and a dozen other states.
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